Quārta · Unit 1 · Lesson 7
Letters 6.20.11–20: in the dark
Pliny’s mother begs him to leave her; the darkness overtakes the crowd; and at last a pale sun on a world covered in ash.
You will be able to
- Read Letters 6.20.12–18 in extracts
- Recognize historical infinitives, indirect statement and a contrary-to-fact subjunctive
- Compare the nephew’s account with the uncle’s
New words
- tenebrae, tenebrārum, f. pl. darkness
- iuvenis, iuvenis, m. young man
- tergum, tergī, n. back
- respiciō, respicere to look back